Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Dalton—Through a new promotion named “100 in 100,” the Floor Covering Education Foundation ( FCEF) announced that it will offer scholarships to cover the full cost of tuition for installation training to 100 individuals in 100 days. The promotion kicks off Dec. 1 and runs through March 10, 2024. To be eligible for the scholarship, individuals must be new to the industry or have worked as an installation helper for less than a year.

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The A to Z of Building

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Researchers at ETH are actively engaged in developing a low-carbon cement that boasts a substantially reduced embodied CO2 content compared to traditional cement. The Ultra Green Concrete project has.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Woodbury, NY – Stanton Carpet Corp. has appointed Jamann Stepp to the newly created role of senior vice president of hard surface. In this position Stepp will assume overall responsibility and reporting for Stanton’s entire hard surface business. “ Stanton is deeply committed to accelerating its hard surface business over the next several years,” said Jonathan Cohen , Stanton CEO.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Springdale, Utah— QFloors , designer of a host of flooring-specific software solutions and programs for specialty retailers, kicked off its 2023 Users Conference here at the mouth of the beautiful Zion National Park earlier this month to record-breaking attendance. “ There’s more people here than we’ve ever had at a conference before — I think you can see it’s splitting at the seams ,” QFloors CEO, Chad Ogden, told FCNews.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Bjelin hardened wood floors Hannover, Germany—Bjelin plans to introduce a bevy of new offerings at the Domotex fair here, Jan. 11-14. Bjelin will display the new products alongside its existing hardened wood range, offering the latest floor panel sizes, herringbone parquet and resilient and light rigid core. As sustainability remains a hot topic, Bjelin will showcase flooring developed by sister company, Valinge Innovation.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Dalton–COREtec, Shaw’s premier brand specializing in waterproof LVP and mineral core floors, has introduced a new COREtec Resource Center on retailers’ account management platform, ShawNow. The main goal of the brand’s new dashboard experience is to help streamline operations for customers. Retail sales associates (RSAs) can conveniently access new product training materials.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Dalton—COREtec, Shaw’s premier brand specializing in waterproof LVP and mineral core floors, has introduced a new COREtec Resource Center on retailers’ account management platform, ShawNow. The main goal of the brand’s new dashboard experience is to help streamline operations for customers. Retail sales associates (RSAs) can conveniently access new product training materials.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Välinge Innovation will showcase several new flooring innovations at Domotex, scheduled Jan. 11-14, in Hannover, Germany. “We are looking forward to meet both existing and potential partners at Domotex,” said Niklas Borgquist, key account manager at Välinge. Välinge will show both wooden and resilient flooring at the fair. For wooden flooring, Välinge will introduce the next generation of installation systems designed to increase value for consumers, installers and the environment.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

O nce again, your friendly neighborhood flooring publisher is here to debunk another media-created fallacy that is designed to generate eyeballs and clicks and, potentially, negatively impact your business. This time the fallacy surrounds the state of the economy, specifically consumers’ supposed dire straits. Sitting in my hotel room in Dalton recently, I was perusing the ITR Economics site in preparation of principal Brian Beaulieu’s presentation next week at the NAFCD conference in Colorado S

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

R egardless of how smoothly and promptly orders are processed, how effortlessly installations proceed, or how visually stunning the new flooring may be, one critical factor often gets overshadowed—unwanted noise. This is a recurring issue when flooring dealers emphasize aesthetics without considering acoustics. By neglecting the acoustic aspect, flooring professionals run the risk of eroding brand trust and stunting business growth.

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